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At age three, Secretariat not only won the Triple Crown, but he also set speed records in all three races. His time in the Kentucky Derby still stands as the Churchill Downs track record for 11⁄4 miles, and his time in the Belmont Stakes stands as the American record for 11⁄2 miles on the dirt.
Feb 14, 2024 · Meet Trusted Company, a 34-year-old horse and the last known daughter of Triple Crown winner and Kentucky Derby record holder Secretariat.
Jun 9, 2023 · The 80-year-old, left a paraplegic following a career-ending fall in 1978, did not need anything else to increase his faith in his horse of a lifetime but before the Preakness Stakes – the second leg of the Triple Crown – he got it.
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- Secretariat’s fate rested on a coin toss. In the fall of 1969, stable owners Ogden Phipps and Penny Chenery met in the offices of the New York Racing Association for what turned out to be one of the most important coin tosses in sports history.
- Secretariat was named Horse of the Year twice. After losing his very first race, at Aqueduct on July 4, 1972, Secretariat lost just once more in his two-year-old campaign, and even that was due to a controversial disqualification in a race.
- Secretariat lost the run-up to the Derby. Secretariat easily won the first two races as a three-year-old, before running a disappointing third in the Wood Memorial, his final tune-up before Churchill Downs.
- Secretariat set records that are still standing today. As the 1973 Derby began, Secretariat broke out of the gate last, before quickly moving up on the field.
Apr 30, 2018 · Dr. Thomas Swerczek, the veterinarian who performed the necropsy, reported that he found that Secretariat’s heart, weighing between 21 and 22 pounds, was the largest he had ever seen in a...
Sep 18, 2017 · Penny Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown champion Secretariat, died on Saturday, September 16, as the result of a stroke. She was 95 years old. Born Helen Bates Chenery, Penny entered the Thoroughbred racing world through her father, Christopher Chenery.
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Nov 18, 2023 · Patricia McQueen, faithful cataloguer of the dwindling tribe of Secretariat, meets the old boy here. Of Secretariat’s humans, only jockey Ron Turcotte, 82, is still with us. Turcotte has used a wheelchair ever since his riding career was ended by a fall in July 1978, in which he was paralysed from the waist down.
